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sentation of the Remonstrance, ib.; the king's conduct after the assassination of Buckingham, 477; vow of the Parliament to maintain the Articles of Religion of the 13th Eliz., 478; tumult in the House, and dissolution of the Parliament, 480. CHARLES the Fifth, his edicts against the Reformed religion, iii. 242; his conduct influenced by political, not religious motives, 243. CHARLES the Ninth, account of the death of, ii. 7-9; his apology for the massacre of St. Bartholomew, iii. 255-259; his character, 260. CHERRIES, introduction of, into Great Britain, ii. 156; loss and reintroduction of, in the reign of Henry VIII., ib. CHESS, clergymen prohibited from playing, ii. 32; Kempelen's Mechanical Chess-player, iii. 284, note. CHINESE language, i. 267; difficulties of, experienced by P. Bourgeois, 268. CHOCOLATE, brought from Mexico by the Spaniards, ii. 325; treatise against the use of, ib.; chocolate-houses in London, ib. CHRISTMAS Prince at the Universities, ii. 268; account of one at Oxford, 1607, ib., note. CHRISTODINS, iii. 81. CHRONOGRAMS, i. 295. CHURCHILL abhorred the correction of his MSS., ii. 85. CICERO a punster, i. 69; a manufacturer of prefaces, 71; a collector, ii. 396; his projected library, ib.; employs Atticus to procure books and statues, 397; discovered the tomb of Archimedes, iii. 409. CITIES, Free, shook off the yoke of feudal tyranny, i. 184. CLAIRON, Mademoiselle, anecdote of, i. 251. CLARENDON House, history of its erection, iii. 189-191; popularly called Dunkirk House, or Tangier Hall, 189; satire on the building of, 190; existing remains of, 191, note. CLASSICAL learning, ii. 332. CLOVIS, his reasons for adopting Christianity, ii. 433, 434, and note. COACHES, introduction of, into England, ii. 36; use of, in France, ib. COCKERAM, H., his English Dictionary and its new words, iii. 24. COCK-FIGHTING in Ceylon, i. 188. COFFEE, introduction of, into Europe, ii, 320; made fashionable at Paris by the Turkish ambassador, 321; invectives and poetical satires against, 322-324; advantages of its use, 325. COFFEE-HOUSES, the first opened at Paris, ii. 321; improvements in, ib.; the first in England, 322; shut up by proclamation, ib.; and iii. 379, note. COKE, or Cook, Sir Edward, his most pleasing book, his Manual, or _Va
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